The Fifth Circuit reversed a National Labor Relations Board bargaining order Wednesday against a legal support consulting firm, determining certain workers within the unit are supervisors who can't unionize under federal labor law.
A federal judge threw out a suit from a Black pharmacist who said racial bias led to him being disciplined after he was falsely accused of falling asleep on the job at the University of Pennsylvania hospital, ruling there wasn't enough proof that prejudice was involved.
A U.S. House panel chair criticized Wednesday a tip credit rule that the Fifth Circuit recently vacated, calling it burdensome and out of touch.
Jeralyn Baran, Samera Ludwig and Robert Smeltzer
Illinois employers should review their policies in light of a number of recent changes to state employment law, in... (more story)
Rebecca Bernhard and Jennifer Service
Rebecca Bernhard and Jennifer Service at Barnes & Thornburg discuss the nuts and bolts of what the National Labor ... (more story)
Aaron Burrell and Timothy Howlett
The Michigan Supreme Court's recent Occupational Health and Safety Act decision in Stegall v. Resource Technology ... (more story)
A gas supplier violated federal labor law when it withheld raises from a group of pro-union workers in Southern California, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, upholding an agency judge's decision over o... (more story)
Third Circuit judges pressed the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday to specify what elevated a Pennsylvania plastic company employee's complaints about working during COVID-19 closures into protected, ... (more story)
A Third Circuit panel on Wednesday struggled to find agreement between Starbucks Corp. and the National Labor Relations Board on the scope of the agency's power to penalize companies for violating employees' r... (more story)
A Pennsylvania federal judge tossed a race and disability bias suit from an American Airlines worker who said she was fired over a positive drug test triggered by her ADHD medication, ruling she hadn't present... (more story)
Starbucks violated federal labor law by issuing subpoenas seeking communications between workers and the union linked to an organizing effort at a Long Island store, a National Labor Relations Board judge rule... (more story)
A Massachusetts federal judge tossed a hospital worker's claims that a Teamsters unit failed to properly represent her when she didn't receive as big a pay bump under a new collective bargaining agreement as e... (more story)
Prosecutors from the National Labor Relations Board's New York City office have issued a complaint against Trader Joe's, seeking a board order that would compel the grocery store chain to bargain with a union ... (more story)
The Defender Association of Philadelphia says a Black former public defender has no basis for racial bias allegations stemming from her allegedly discriminatory firing, arguing that her claims were investigate... (more story)
A logistics company must face a Black former employee's suit alleging it failed to prevent a white co-worker who displayed a Confederate flag on his phone from subjecting him to a racist threat, a Pennsylvania... (more story)
Verizon's Maryland arm has agreed to pay $115,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it refused to let an employee transfer to a job that wouldn't aggravate his hypertension... (more story)
A California federal judge has dismissed sexual assault and trafficking claims against New York Knicks owner James Dolan, casting a hired massage therapist's accusations against him as "speculative" but leavin... (more story)
A Democrat-backed bill that would curb federal agencies' ability to use past medical or recreational cannabis use as a factor in hiring and security clearance decisions was advanced out of a Senate committee W... (more story)
Walmart has agreed to pay a former sales associate $85,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the retail giant fired her when she requested medical leave to treat her Crohn... (more story)
A Massachusetts medical marijuana dispensary can enforce an arbitration clause in its employment agreement even when it did not specify the rights a worker was waiving, an intermediate state appellate court has said.
A Colorado federal judge granted final approval Thursday to a $400,000 settlement that resolves claims from migrant housekeepers who accused a cleaning contractor of committing a variety of wage and visa law v... (more story)
Long-haul freight delivery company CRST will shell out about $4 million to settle a suit by truck drivers accusing the company of not paying them their full wages and failing to provide breaks, after a Califor... (more story)
Michigan's minimum wage will rise to $12.48 an hour in February, the state Supreme Court confirmed Wednesday in an order that settled a debate over how to calculate the new wage floor, but rehashed internal di... (more story)
Universal Studios Hollywood shorted nonexempt employees on all wages owed to them by failing to pay them for necessary pre- and post-shift tasks, and neglected to provide workers with adequate meal and rest pe... (more story)
The date set by a California federal judge for the NCAA and the athletes suing it over name, image and likeness compensation to iron out issues with their proposed $2.78 billion settlement is fast approaching,... (more story)
A recent Fifth Circuit decision ruling that the U.S. Department of Labor could raise salary levels for overtime-exempt workers clarifies that the major questions doctrine should stay out of a case challenging ... (more story)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and a subsidiary failed to promptly pay all final wages and unused vacation time to departing employees and must now cough up three times the amount of that compensation because o... (more story)
The Third Circuit's decision that college athletes are not precluded from bringing a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act raises key questions about the practical consequences of treating collegiate athlet... (more story)
As more independent contractors are contracted and subcontracted in the delivery industry, companies must be prepared to defend claims from drivers who are injured on the job as they are often seeking to estab... (more story)
A Seventh Circuit judge seemed unsure Wednesday whether to disturb a $183 million verdict against Eli Lilly in a false claims case targeting more than a decade of drug rebate miscalculations, questioning wheth... (more story)